Virgin Tour includes activities, Yellowcard
Platinum recording group Yellowcard will make a stop at Central Michigan University Wednesday as part of the month-long 2006 Virgin College Mega Tour.
Mae and Over It also will perform at 8 p.m. in Rose Arena.
The Virgin Tour Village day-time festival will be set up prior to the event, offering activities and other band performances to the public from 1 to 6 p.m. in Lot 18.
Stacy Pickelman, Program Board vice president, said the event will be a full day of fun.
“They bring us this Village and they do tons of giveaways,” the Freeland senior said.
Some of those giveaways include iPods, T-shirts and other prizes. The biggest prize, however, is a chance to win a Pontiac G6 or Torrent.
“Possibly a CMU student could win,” said Kyle Vandeventer, Saginaw sophomore and Program Board member.
The Village also includes activities like band signings, listening stations and bean bag toss tournaments.
Pickelman said this could be one of CMU’s biggest events of the year as there will be representatives from MTV, Pontiac, Monster, Virgin and other record labels in attendance.
“We think this is going to be bigger than Dierks Bentley,” she said.
The Pontiac Garage, an area of the Village, will include activities like meet and greet with the bands, a karaoke booth and Xbox stations.
Pickelman said the actual concert has had good ticket sales, which she figures will pick up this week.
“Our ticket sales are actually quite high,” she said. “We’ve reached over 1,000 tickets. The majority of our tickets are sold the week before.”
Tickets for CMU students are $19 for the floor, $17 for the lower bowl and $15 for the upper bowl. Faculty, staff and alumni tickets cost $22 for the floor, $22 for the lower bowl and $18 for the upper bowl.
